Glam Flower
Saffron opens dry and leathery, its papery spice immediately dusted by lime and bergamot that shear off any sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Honey50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens dry and leathery, its papery spice immediately dusted by lime and bergamot that shear off any sweetness. The heart layers violet leaf’s cool green crunch against ylang-ylang’s banana-cream richness, while honey coats the rose petals, turning them lacquered rather than fresh. Eight hours in, the base is mostly amber and vanilla, but the oud arrives earlier, a clean, medicinal wood that keeps the honey from cloying and lets the white musks float instead of swamp. Projection stays at arm’s length, polite enough for open-plan offices yet persistent through a commute. Cool fall days sharpen the saffron-wood contrast; humid heat makes the honey dominate and the leather recede.
Scent twins
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